The first ever film major at the Rhode Island School of Design, the first female president of the Directors Guild of America, and the first to cast Nicolas Cage as a lead in a feature film, the legendary Martha Coolidge will be joining the American Cinematheque in-person for another iconic first: our first retrospective devoted to her work as a trailblazing filmmaker.

Films include: Not A Pretty Picture, Valley Girl, Real Genius, Angie, Lost In Yonkers, Rambling Rose, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, The Prince And Me And Out To Sea

VALLEY GIRL, 1983, Dir. Martha Coolidge, 95 Min, USA

A girl from the San Fernando Valley falls for a Hollywood punker, much to the dismay of her socially-conscious friends. Will she decide to forgo popularity for true love?

FORMAT: 35mm

REAL GENIUS, 1985, Dir. Martha Coolidge, 108 Min, USA

When a group of crazy college geniuses put their heads together, almost anything can happen. Chris (Val Kilmer) is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is the 16-year-old whiz kid, and Lazlo (Jonathan Gries), America’s number one brain, literally lives in a world of his own … Chris’ closet. When the geniuses discover that their unscrupulous mentor Professor Hathaway (William Atherton) has had them working on a secret weapon for the military, they plot an elaborate revenge.

FORMAT: 35mm

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)